Building on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Happy, Humble, Smart is the story of Jeff Shanley, the former head of business development from DecisionTech, who takes over his family’s business in Napa, California. Jeff brings with him the lessons he learns from Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO and the protagonist of The Five Dysfunctions, but he finds himself frustrated with the number of people he hires that don’t seem suited to be team players. Jeff casually seeks the advice of the local college basketball coach, whose teams are known to exceed the expectations that his talent would indicate. That’s how Jeff learns about the three traits that the coach uses to evaluate players, a recipe that has a greater impact on the team’s success than any technical approach. A non-fiction model summary will follow the fable and the book will provide many opportunities for related programs, applications and tools, including the possibility of an accessible self and team assessment.

Topically, Humble, Hungry, Smart  will be the most closely aligned book toThe Five Dysfunctions.

Patrick Lencioni is the New York Times bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In this follow-up to his groundbreaking work, Lencioni provides a field guide for implementing the principles of achieving corporate goals through this innovative program. The work also boasts helpful exercises and illustrative, real-world examples.

“Organizational health will one day surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage.”

This is the promise of The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni’s bold manifesto about the most unexploited opportunity in modern business. In his immensely readable and accessible style, Lencioni makes the case that there is no better way to achieve profound improvement in an organization than by attacking the root causes of dysfunction, politics, and confusion.

While too many leaders are still limiting their search for advantage to conventional and largely exhausted areas like marketing, strategy, and technology, Lencioni demonstrates that there is an untapped gold mine sitting right beneath them. Instead of trying to become smarter, he asserts that leaders and organizations need to shift their focus to becoming healthier, allowing them to tap into the more-than-sufficient intelligence and expertise they already have.

The author of numerous bestselling business fables including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Death by Meeting, Lencioni here draws upon his twenty years of writing, field research, and executive consulting to some of the world’s leading organizations. He combines real-world stories and anecdotes with practical, actionable advice to create a work that is at once a great read and an invaluable, hands-on tool. The result is, without a doubt, Lencioni’s most comprehensive, significant, and essential work to date.

-Patrick Lencioni, writer of foreword for Derailed, author The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

'This is not just a book for CEOs. It is for anyone who serves in a leadership capacity—pastors, teachers, government officials, and even mid-level managers in corporations. Not only is this a book you should read; in my opinion, it’s a book you can’t afford not to read. There is simply too much at stake.'

- Michael Hyatt, CEO, Thomas Nelson

What causes a leader to fail? What can we learn from those who have fallen? How do we avoid failure of our own?

These are just a few of the questions answered in Derailed: 5 Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership, a book for leaders and aspiring leaders of all levels by Tim Irwin, Ph.D. Derailed chronicles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs, the factors that drove their downfalls, and the lessons that we can learn to stay on track and avoid derailing our own lives and careers.

The story of the fallen CEO has become a cultural fixture: veering off course with the force of a train careening off its tracks, leaving fiery wreckage and devastating injury throughout the organization. These executives are often the smartest and most respected individuals in their industries, with glittering resumes and histories of successful leadership. Yet they astonish us by driving the train dramatically off course, blinded by unchecked power and arrogance.

Dr. Tim Irwin believes that these leaders suffer from failures of character that are common to each of us--even the most capable individuals. Deficits in authenticity, humility, self-management, and courage become more dangerous as we take on more leadership, and can cause us to ignore glaring signals that might otherwise save us from catastrophic demise. Derailed profiles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs (Robert Nardelli – Home Depot, Carly Fiorina - HP, Durk Jager – Proctor and Gamble, Steven Heyer – Starwood Hotels, Frank Raines – Fannie Mae, Dick Fuld – Lehman Brothers) and the factors that drove their downfalls, finding that derailment actually happens long before the crash and can be avoided. Derailed explains the character qualities that are essential for successful leadership and how to cultivate them so that we can avoid being derailed.

Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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Tap into your organization's ultimatecompetitive advantage?teamwork

Based on his best-selling leadership fable, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni gives trainers everything needed for a high-impact, half-day, full-day, or two-day learning experience for functional teams or team leaders.

Significantly revised and improved to meet the changing needs of organizations and individuals, the second edition of the Facilitator's Guide includes two distinct workshops. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Workshop for Teams helps team members improve in each of five key fundamentals: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Workshop for Team Leaders provides leaders with an in-depth understanding of the model along with techniques for applying the theory to help their teams.

Ideal for off-sites and retreats or even a series of development meetings, this training package will allow teams of all types to begin the journey towards greater productivity and cohesion.

This Facilitator's Guide Package includes: binder (with loose-leaf pages and tabs), paper assessment, two Participant Workbooks, poster, a Frequently-Asked-Questions booklet, a flash drive containing scripts and PowerPoints for both workshops.

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is simply the best content available on teams. After implementing the products extensively within our organization, we have found Lencioni's practical approach to be invaluable.'?Mike Phelan, principal, Deloitte Consulting

'Lencioni's approach to team development is refreshing?practical, extremely engaging, and not touchy-feely. I would recommend this experience to any team wanting to excel.'?Vern L. Toland, managing director, Hilton Grand Vacations Company

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team program not only restored the fiscal health of our company, it provided the crucial tools forus to face the economic downturn. The program has enabled us to sustain performance through creativity and teamwork and we're using it throughout our entire company.'?Matt Danilowicz, CEO, Clear-Com

Learn to lead a cohesive team?and give yourorganization the ultimate competitive advantage.

In theory, teamwork is simple. Most of us already know what it requires. But in practice, teamwork is dif?cult. Building a team is a process, one that requires remarkable levels of discipline, courage, and persistence.

Based on the best-selling leadership fable The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this easy-to-use workbook provides leaders with an opportunity to explore and overcome the pitfalls that side-track teams. Beginning with a 38-item team assessment, the workbook guides leaders through the five steps of developing acohesive and productive team:

• Building Trust

• Mastering Conflict

• Achieving Commitment

• Embracing Accountability

• Focusing on Results

Ideal for off-sites and retreats or even a series of development meetings, this workbook is an excellent team development tool.

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is simply the best content available on teams. After implementing the products extensively within our organization, we have found Lencioni's practical approach to be invaluable.'?Mike Phelan, principal, Deloitte Consulting

'Lencioni's approach to team development is refreshing?practical, extremely engaging, and not touchy-feely. I would recommend this experience to any team wanting to excel.'?Vern L. Toland, managing director, Hilton Grand Vacations Company

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team program not only restored the fiscal health of our company, it provided the crucial tools for us to face the economic downturn. The program has enabled us to sustain performance through creativity and teamwork and we're using it throughout our entire company.'?Matt Danilowicz, CEO, Clear-Com

Be part of a cohesive team?and give your organization the ultimate competitive advantage.

In theory, teamwork is simple. Most of us already know what it requires. But in practice, teamwork is dif???cult. Building a team is a process, one that requires remarkable levels of discipline, courage, and persistence.

Based on the best-selling leadership fable The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, the new edition of this easy-to-use workbook provides participants with an opportunity to explore and overcome the pitfalls that side-track teams. Beginning with a 38-item team assessment, the workbook guides participants through the five steps of developing a cohesive and productive team:

• Building Trust

• Mastering Con???ict

• Achieving Commitment

• Embracing Accountability

• Focusing on Results

Ideal for off-sites and retreats or even a series of development meetings, this workbook is an excellent team development tool.

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is simply the best content available on teams. After implementing the products extensively within our organization, we have found Lencioni's practical approach to be invaluable.'?Mike Phelan, principal, Deloitte Consulting

'Lencioni's approach to team development is refreshing?practical, extremely engaging, and not touchy-feely. I would recommend this experience to any team wanting to excel.'?Vern L. Toland, managing director, Hilton Grand Vacations Company

'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team program not only restored the fiscal health of our company, it provided the crucial tools for us to face the economic downturn. The program has enabled us to sustain performance through creativity and teamwork and we're using it throughout our entire company.'?Matt Danilowicz, CEO, Clear-Com

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified.  Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health—complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation's leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way—one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

A handbook that addresses the moral failures and corruption of political and corporate officials, this reference suggests that, regardless of how morally strong a leader, all face seven core risks, but by identifying and learning to recognize each risk, leaders can stop creating misery for themselves and the people who rely on them emotionally and financially and deliver the sustainable success people count on them for. Following the story of ?Rob,” this story begins with the demise of a fallen hero?revisiting the choices Rob made as he first took a leadership role and began growing in stature and power. At every step in Rob's ascent, the author demonstrates how each of the seven fatal risk factors build upon one another, creating an inevitable downward spiral. The author then offers practical ways to avoid Rob's fate with the marshalling of diagnostic tools, questions, and quizzes as well as big-picture solutions and practical tasks that aim to reinforce leadership abilities, retain confidence, and earn and keep the trust of others.

It is a simple fact of business life that any job, from investment banker to dishwasher, can become miserable—and that even the most well-meaning manager can miss the causes. According to Patrick Lencioni, three underlying factors make a job miserable—anonymity, irrelevance, and immeasurement. Based on Lencioni's Three Signs of a Miserable Job model, the Managing for Employee Engagement Workshop will help managers understand the root causes of job misery and provides action items to develop an engaged workforce.

The Managing for Employee Engagement: Poster serves as a visual illustration of the Three Signs model.  It is designed to accompany an the full or half day workshop.

Another extraordinary business fable from the New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni

Written in the same dynamic style as his previous bestsellers including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni illustrates the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business fable. He explains the theory of vulnerability in depth and presents concrete steps for putting it to work in any organization. The story follows a small consulting firm, Lighthouse Partners, which often beats out big-name competitors for top clients. One such competitor buys out Lighthouse and learns important lessons about what it means to provide value to its clients.

• Offers a key resource for gaining competitive advantage in tough times
• Shows why the quality of vulnerability is so important in business
• Includes ideas for inspiring customer and client loyalty
• Written by the highly successful consultant and business writer Patrick Lencioni

This new book in the popular Lencioni series shows what it takes to gain a real and lasting competitive edge.